 | William Paton Ker - Literature - 1925 - 368 pages
...delight in that learning, because he did not believe they were true ; for which reason I found that he had very much turned his studies for about a twelvemonth...Champions, and other historians of that age. . . . He would tell you the mismanagements of John Hickathrift, find fault with the passionate temper in Bevis... | |
 | John Boynton Priestley - English essays - 1925 - 328 pages
...because he did not believe they were true " ; for which reason I found he had very much turned his 89 studies, for about a twelvemonth past, into the lives...Seven Champions, and other historians of that age. I could not but observe the satisfaction the father took in the forwardness of his son ; and that these... | |
 | Gesiena Andreae - Children - 1925 - 150 pages
...they were true, for which reason, I found he had very much turned his studies, for about twelve months past into The Lives and Adventures of Don Bellianis...Champions, and other historians of that age .... He would tell you the mismanagements of John Hickerthrift, find fault with the passionate temper in Be... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - English prose literature - 1925 - 1262 pages
...much turned his Studies, for about a Twelve month past, into the Lives and Adventures of Don Belianis of Greece, Guy of Warwick, the Seven Champions, and other Historians of that Age. . . . I was extolling his Accomplishments, when the Mother told me, That the little Girl who led me... | |
 | Gilles Duval - Books and bookselling - 1991 - 762 pages
...filleul, un enfant de huit ans : «I found he had very much turned his studies for about twelve months past, into the lives and adventures of Don Bellianis...Warwick, The Seven Champions, and other historians. . . He would tell you about the mismanagements of John Hickerthrift [il s'agit en fait de Tom Hickathrift],... | |
 | Velma Bourgeois Richmond - Civilization, Medieval, in literature - 1996 - 636 pages
...lad "very much turned his study for about a Twelvemonth into the Lives and Adventures of Don Beldams of Greece, Guy of Warwick, the Seven Champions, and other Historians of that Age." The child's awareness gratifies the adults who justify such reading: "the Boy had made Remarks, which... | |
 | Katharine Mary Briggs - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 360 pages
...reading of his godson, who had abandoned Aesop's Fuhles as improbable, and was concentrating on the Adventures of Don Bellianis of Greece, Guy of Warwick, the Seven Champions, 'and other historian-. ot that age'. His sister Betty, however, who, her mother said, was a better scholar than... | |
 | Elspeth Jajdelska - History - 2007 - 241 pages
...all the Learning on t'other Side Eight Years old. I perceived him a very great Historian in Aesop's Fables; but he frankly declared to me his Mind, That...Champions, and other Historians of that Age . . . He would tell you the Mismanagements of John Hickathrift, find Fault with the passionate Temper in Bevis... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 2007 - 298 pages
...which reason I found he had very much turned his studies, for about a twelvemonth past, into the lives of Don Bellianis of Greece, Guy of Warwick, 'the Seven Champions,' and other historians of that age. I could not but observe the satisfaction the father took in the forwardness of his son, and that these... | |
 | John Aikin - 1807 - 702 pages
...turned his studies for about a twelvemonth past into the Jives and adventures of Don Belli an is ol Greece, Guy of Warwick, the Seven Champions, and other historians of that age." He goe* on to say of the little boy's sister, " Betty deals chiefly in fairies and sprights; and sometimes... | |
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Fables; but he frankly declared to me his mind, "that he did not delight in that learning, because he did not believe they were true"; for which reason I found he had very much turned his studies, for about a twelve-month past, into the lives and adventures... 
